New York City Pays for Destroyed OWS Library, Mary Jo Bang on the Tetris Effect, and More

Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories:

“In the end, even if Neruda died of cancer, as was said at the time, his exhumation is an opportunity to reinforce the message to authoritarians everywhere that a poet’s words will always outlast theirs, and the blind praise of their powerful friends.” In light of Margaret Thatcher's death in England just as Chilean investigators exhumed Pablo Neruda—Jon Lee Anderson shares his thoughts about this historical moment. (New Yorker)